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Monday morning we will go together with young Calvert and attend to the legal papers, and then I should advise you to devote your time to making preparations " "Dad Stevenson!" Helen May's voice ended in an exasperated, frightened kind of wail. "I and Vic! Are you crazy?" "Not at all. It is sudden, of course.
Tom was not to be diverted from his subject by any meteorological observations. "Perhaps some time your guardian will allow the dad to take you on another little holiday," he said hopefully. "I'm afraid he won't," answered Kate. "Why not?" "Because he seemed so cross when I came back this last time." "Why was he cross?" asked Tom.
Every time he bet and lost, he would reach out to dad for more money, and dad would reach into another pocket and dig up another roll, and the countess would laugh and dad had to act as though he enjoyed losing money.
Nelly ran to his side to clasp her arms about him and cry: "Dad! Dad! Poor Dad. Don't! Don't! It's all right, Dad. We won't worry about things. God has taken care of us so far and He isn't going to stop." "That ain't it, honey. That ain't it," said poor Bolivar, slipping a trembling arm about her. "It's it's oh, I can't jist rightly say what 'tis."
"I can carry a gun through a long day's shooting, dad; but you might make me your soldier servant." "Bedad, I should fare mighty badly, Terence; still as I don't see anything else for you, I must try and take you somehow, even if you have to go as a drummer. I will talk it over with the colonel, though I doubt whether he has forgotten that sparrow yet."
"But how did you get over from Little River station?" "Walked." "Why didn't you telephone? I'd have come over to meet you." "Needed the exercise. Hello, Dad." The Elder greeted the young man with a cold nod. His hand trembled slightly as he stiffly extended it. "We are just a short time at table. Will you join us?" "Be glad to, Dad.
Still, perhaps, in case of accident it would be as well to be getting out of this. Helfer, you'll take the great chest. That's your business, you know. 'Yes, dad, said a third voice. 'But you must help me to get it on my back. It's awfully heavy, you know. 'Well, it isn't just a bag of smoke, I admit. But you're as strong as a mountain, Helfer. 'You say so, dad. I think myself I'm all right.
Mother has already broached the subject of taking him away to southern California or Florida for a long rest; Dad has seconded the motion with great enthusiasm and that stubborn Donald has told them frankly that he isn't going away for a rest." "Gosh!" Mr. Daney gasped. "That makes it a little binding, eh?"
"They must have exciting times getting the news, sometimes," returned Sam. "Here's an advertisement that will interest you," remarked Dick, and he pointed to the bottom of a page. "Pelter, Japson & Company advertise themselves as brokers and dealers in high-class Western securities, and they offer stock in that Sunset Irrigation Company. That's the company dad was interested in."
And he would have stopped when he found that Dad and his father had taken full blood lands only why why, I said that if I could stand his showing that you had been crooked up there, I could stand anything and I made him go on." She stopped with a little break in her voice that was not unlike a sob.
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